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...group has grown to be the largest Latino organization on campus--with about 50 active members and an e-mail list of 200--RAZA has been challenged to provide a community to students who might not otherwise find an ethnic home to turn...
Mesa, a tradition that preceded RAZA and helped lead to its formation, also helps keep the group strong 25 years after several Harvard undergraduates were inspired by the civil rights movement to found an organization for students of Mexican-American heritage...
...students began with the small organizational attempts of meeting once a week for the ever-popular Mesa," Rosa Rosalez '01, the group's representative to the Harvard Foundation, told RAZA members last term as they celebrated their 25th anniversary. "In doing so, they began to grow as a group and stretch the legs of a newfound collective identity...
...while RAZA may have been formed with a Mexican-American constituency in mind, the group has expanded over the last 25 years to encompass Latino students on campus as well...
...civil rights movement was not the only impetus for RAZA's creation, says Gonzalo C. Martinez '98, president of RAZA last year...